The Republic of NAS85 is a colossal, pleasant nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, parental licensing program, and pith helmet sales. The hard-working population of 3.522 billion NAS85ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.9%.

The NAS85ian economy, worth 171 trillion Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,598 Marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 155,066 per year while the poor average 11,578, a ratio of 13.4 to 1.

Some say Leader has gone MAD after authorizing the development of apocalyptic biological weapons, women don't report crimes to the emergency services for fear of being arrested, new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in NAS85 to be bombproof, and rumor has it that Leader has won three lotteries in a row. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NAS85's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

NAS85 is ranked 264,090^th in the world and 98^th in The Ninth Army for Highest Poor Incomes, with 11,578.73 Standard Monetary Units.